“Naomi Campbell has been disqualified from being a trustee after the Charity Commission found serious mismanagement of finances at charity Fashion for Relief,” the Mirror reports. “The supermodel, 54, was one of the charity’s three trustees who have been disqualified following a regulator’s probe.”

Trustees were living high on the hog, with Campbell reportedly staying at a five-star hotel in Cannes and taking a “14,800 euro (£12,300) flight from London to Nice [while] 8.5% of the charity’s overall expenditure was on charitable grants,” the Commission concluded.

It’s reminiscent of nothing so much as the Marxist founders of Black Lives Matter “lavishly spend[ing] donated money on luxury mansions … worth millions.” Still, it raises a more basic question for AmmoLand readers:

What does this have to do with guns?

Nothing directly, but seeing the news about Campbell’s fall from grace among our morally superior betters in the “liberal” elites recalled reports from years back where the bodyguard-escorted mega-millionaire ($80M per Celebrity Net Worth) lent her name and fame to the cause of disarming the hoi polloi (you and me).

Back in 2000, she joined ultra-violent Kill Bill’s Uman Thurman and a gaggle of celebrity lottery winners to mug for Marie Claire’s “End Gun Violence Now. They really didn’t have to do anything but show up and virtue signal at “a photoshoot, all donning campaign T-shirts and joining hands to demonstrate their united front against arms.” As an aside, celebrity brain dead quote of the year went to Melanie Griffith, who vacuously bleated “”Most products are carefully sealed with safety catches, tape, cellophane… yet you can buy a gun with no safety element at all. How is that possible?”

“Should Naomi Campbell push for ‘gun control’ or self-control?” I asked in a 2010 article, highlighting how someone given material blessings most can only dream about, and who is so (supposedly) intent on stopping violence, appeared to have not just anger, but rage management issues.

Examples included:

• From Kathryn Brown, CBS 2 HD News: “Campbell is accused of slapping her New York City driver. He said she then jumped out of the car and fled.”
• From Colin Monynihan at The New York Times: …Naomi Campbell…was charged with assaulting her housekeeper with a telephone…the housekeeper, Ana Scolavino, 41, was struck in the back of the head by the telephone. She was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital, where she received four staples for a gash… In 1998, she was arrested by the police in Toronto and charged with assaulting an assistant.
• From Mail Online: “In the past eight years, Campbell has been accused eight times of committing acts of violence and verbal abuse against her employees and associates.”
• Then there was this from the AP: “Temperamental model Naomi Campbell was sentenced to 200 hours of community service Friday after pleading guilty to assaulting two police officers after an ‘air rage’ incident at Heathrow Airport.”
• And her affinity (along with other Hollywood luminaries) for Venezuelan Marxist strongman Hugo Chavez, another proponent of citizen disarmament edicts…

“What Naomi Campbell knew about the ‘blood diamonds’ she received from Liberia’s former warlord/president, ‘monopoly of violence’ advocate, and Hague war crimes defendant Charles Taylor, is the subject of conflicting testimony. Likewise, her motives for deciding she couldn’t keep a gift that could have resulted in criminal charges against her is suspect,” I wrote in a follow-up piece. “Was she ‘flirting’ with a bloody-handed tyrant? Did she know the ‘dirty stones’ she says she got from his henchmen (and there’s a word you don’t hear much outside of The Venture Bros. episodes these days) were really valuable gems? Does she care about how such diamonds mined in certain areas of Africa–often through forced labor by captives–are used to finance brutal repression and terror? What part did knowing it’s illegal to remove such diamonds from South Africa play in her decision to ‘donate’ the gift instead of keeping it?”

No matter. She still managed to make a “Billionaires Club” party in Sardinia over a following weekend, where another guest was Blood Diamonds “star” Leonardo DiCaprio, who sat on the Board of Trustees of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a group committed to banning lead ammunition.

These are the “One Percenters” the Antifa-types rail against. That they’re given a pass tells us much.

Gun prohibitionist organizations are quick to exploit celebrity support, and the logical fallacy that fame equates with tempered judgment. Yet in example after example it can be shown that the narcissists and reprobates who demand to control the rest of us can’t – or more likely just won’t – control themselves. They don’t trust us because they don’t trust themselves, and presume we share their moral and emotional defects.

We’re known by the company we keep, and I’ve yet to meet the gun owner who threw a phone at the help and sent her to the hospital for head staples.

About David Codrea:

David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.